31 JANUARY 1969, Page 28

Crossword no. 1363

Across 1 The sound of infantile back-chat? (6) 4 Saw angry wound (8) 9 Sundry pearlers (6) 10 Balham academician transmogrified into castle in Spain (8) 12 She takes a turn with Dorothy at the opera (8) 13 Sanctimonious rank for Captain Morgan (6) 15 27's bane (4) 16 Is military reformed in its own likeness? (10) 19 Somewhat motionless yet spirited activity (10) 20 One of those Pyrenean teasers (4) 23 A somewhat obligatory assembly of peacocks (6) 25 I claim in disarray to be unfriendly (8)

27 `Will come the — in white, and gathered flowers are dead, Yasmin' (Flecker) (8)

28 How Mr Pickwick went about causing mirth? (6) 29 Ale I must feign (8) 30 Worn, from brawling. perhaps? (6) Down 1 Robbers pull by rope here in place of hobby- horse (7) 2 Lordly team of publicans (9) 3 Hesitant phrase before tirade produces wan- dering (6) 5 Lore to play its part (4) 6 The river of the poetic hand-fetishist? (8) 7 Nutty sun-god goes serpentine (5)

8 Gothic ornamentation in outline? (7) 11 Advance to the brook a mighty Ape should appear (7)

14 Penning agreement (7) 17 How moonshiners engage in 19 across (9) 18 Starry, like the Madrid team, perhaps? (8) 19 Sire's wife matures, becoming due for com- pensation (7) 21 Indirectly referred to Dedalus losing a shilling and gaining a pound (7) 22 Addicted Londoner? (6) 24 Muse gets right to anti-body medium (5) 26 Fitting for the hunt (4) Solution next week

Solution to Crossword no. 1362. Across: 1 Cata- comb 5 Assays 9 Gertrude 10 Hallam 12 Arsenic 13 Uplands 14 Chinese white 17 Mortarboards 22 Estoril 23 Torsion 24 Ireton 25 Eventide 26 Listed

27 Espalier. Down : 1 Cognac 2 Tbrush 3 Corinth

4 Medicine-ball 6 Shallow 7 Atlantis 8 -Semester 11 Substantives 15 Imperial 16 Fritters l40 Air- hole 19 Deronda 20 Rimini 21 Endear.